Diffusion Models papers, 2023–2026
Diffusion, flow matching, and score-based generative modeling
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 6,900 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Diffusion Models went from 660 papers in 2023 to 2,691 in 2026, roughly 4.1x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Diffusion Models work: 2,202 papers from 2023 to 2026, 32% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Applications · chemistry physics and earth sciences: papers tagged with both rose from 14 in 2023 to 163 in 2026.
- Among the 11 topics under Deep Learning, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Deep learning · foundation models, is up 2.5x versus 4.1x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 327 | 86 | 109 | 138 | 660 |
| 2024 | 520 | 260 | 195 | 496 | 1,471 |
| 2025 | 694 | 487 | 346 | 551 | 2,078 |
| 2026 | 661 | 694 | 728 | 608 | 2,691 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026$\mathbf{D^{3}S^{2}}$: Diffusion-Guided Dataset Distillation for Semantic Segmentation
- ICML 2026“Do Diffusion Models Dream of Electric Planes?” Discrete and Continuous Simulation-Based Inference for Aircraft Design
- ICLR 2026$\alpha$-DPO: Robust Preference Alignment for Diffusion Models via $\alpha$ Divergence
- CVPR 20262ndMatch Finetuning Pruned Diffusion Models via Second-Order Jacobian Matching
- NeurIPS 2025$\text{S}^2$Q-VDiT: Accurate Quantized Video Diffusion Transformer with Salient Data and Sparse Token Distillation
- ICML 2025A First-order Generative Bilevel Optimization Framework for Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025$\text{I}^2\text{AM}$: Interpreting Image-to-Image Latent Diffusion Models via Bi-Attribution Maps
- CVPR 20253DEnhancer: Consistent Multi-View Diffusion for 3D Enhancement
- NeurIPS 2024$\text{Di}^2\text{Pose}$: Discrete Diffusion Model for Occluded 3D Human Pose Estimation
- ICML 2024A Dense Reward View on Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion with Preference
- ICLR 2024$\infty$-Diff: Infinite Resolution Diffusion with Subsampled Mollified States
- CVPR 2024D^4: Dataset Distillation via Disentangled Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 20233D molecule generation by denoising voxel grids
- ICML 2023A Critical Revisit of Adversarial Robustness in 3D Point Cloud Recognition with Diffusion-Driven Purification
- ICLR 2023(Certified!!) Adversarial Robustness for Free!
- CVPR 20233D Neural Field Generation Using Triplane Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2026$\text{PartConcepts}$: A Unified Mechanism for Fine-Grained Part Localization and Generation
- ICML 2026$\sigma$: Sigmoid Modulation for Ultra High Resolution Diffusion
- ICLR 2026$\textit{MADFormer}$: Mixed Autoregressive and Diffusion Transformers for Continuous Image Generation
- CVPR 20263D-LATTE Latent Space 3D Editing from Textual Instructions
All Diffusion Models papers
6,899 papers, page 138 of 138
- NeurIPS 2023Stable Bias: Evaluating Societal Representations in Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Stable Diffusion is Unstable
- NeurIPS 2023Star-Shaped Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
- NeurIPS 2023Strategic Behavior in Two-sided Matching Markets with Prediction-enhanced Preference-formation
- NeurIPS 2023Structural Pruning for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023StyleGAN knows Normal, Depth, Albedo, and More
- NeurIPS 2023StyleTTS 2: Towards Human-Level Text-to-Speech through Style Diffusion and Adversarial Training with Large Speech Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Subject-driven Text-to-Image Generation via Apprenticeship Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Symbolic Discovery of Optimization Algorithms
- NeurIPS 2023SyncDiffusion: Coherent Montage via Synchronized Joint Diffusions
- NeurIPS 2023SynMob: Creating High-Fidelity Synthetic GPS Trajectory Dataset for Urban Mobility Analysis
- NeurIPS 2023Synthetic Experience Replay
- NeurIPS 2023T2T: From Distribution Learning in Training to Gradient Search in Testing for Combinatorial Optimization
- NeurIPS 2023Tanh Works Better with Asymmetry
- NeurIPS 2023Temporal Dynamic Quantization for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Text-to-Image Diffusion Models are Zero Shot Classifiers
- NeurIPS 2023TextDiffuser: Diffusion Models as Text Painters
- NeurIPS 2023The CLIP Model is Secretly an Image-to-Prompt Converter
- NeurIPS 2023The probability flow ODE is provably fast
- NeurIPS 2023The Surprising Effectiveness of Diffusion Models for Optical Flow and Monocular Depth Estimation
- NeurIPS 2023TopP&R: Robust Support Estimation Approach for Evaluating Fidelity and Diversity in Generative Models
- NeurIPS 2023Towards Consistent Video Editing with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Towards Symmetry-Aware Generation of Periodic Materials
- NeurIPS 2023Towards Test-Time Refusals via Concept Negation
- NeurIPS 2023Training Energy-Based Normalizing Flow with Score-Matching Objectives
- NeurIPS 2023Training-free Diffusion Model Adaptation for Variable-Sized Text-to-Image Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2023Trans-Dimensional Generative Modeling via Jump Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Tree-Based Diffusion Schrödinger Bridge with Applications to Wasserstein Barycenters
- NeurIPS 2023Tree-Rings Watermarks: Invisible Fingerprints for Diffusion Images
- NeurIPS 2023TWIGMA: A dataset of AI-Generated Images with Metadata From Twitter
- NeurIPS 2023Uncertainty Quantification via Neural Posterior Principal Components
- NeurIPS 2023Understanding and Mitigating Copying in Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Understanding Diffusion Objectives as the ELBO with Simple Data Augmentation
- NeurIPS 2023Understanding the Latent Space of Diffusion Models through the Lens of Riemannian Geometry
- NeurIPS 2023Uni-ControlNet: All-in-One Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023UniControl: A Unified Diffusion Model for Controllable Visual Generation In the Wild
- NeurIPS 2023Unifying GANs and Score-Based Diffusion as Generative Particle Models
- NeurIPS 2023Unifying Predictions of Deterministic and Stochastic Physics in Mesh-reduced Space with Sequential Flow Generative Model
- NeurIPS 2023UniPC: A Unified Predictor-Corrector Framework for Fast Sampling of Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Unsupervised Protein-Ligand Binding Energy Prediction via Neural Euler's Rotation Equation
- NeurIPS 2023Unsupervised Semantic Correspondence Using Stable Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023Variational Inference with Gaussian Score Matching
- NeurIPS 2023ViCA-NeRF: View-Consistency-Aware 3D Editing of Neural Radiance Fields
- NeurIPS 2023VideoComposer: Compositional Video Synthesis with Motion Controllability
- NeurIPS 2023VillanDiffusion: A Unified Backdoor Attack Framework for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Visual Instruction Inversion: Image Editing via Image Prompting
- NeurIPS 2023Voicebox: Text-Guided Multilingual Universal Speech Generation at Scale
- NeurIPS 2023When Does Confidence-Based Cascade Deferral Suffice?
- NeurIPS 2023Which Models have Perceptually-Aligned Gradients? An Explanation via Off-Manifold Robustness
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FAQ
- How many Diffusion Models papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 6,900 in total: 660 in 2023, 1,471 in 2024, 2,078 in 2025, 2,691 in 2026.
- How many Diffusion Models papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 661 Diffusion Models papers, versus 694 the year before.
- How many Diffusion Models papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 694 Diffusion Models papers, versus 487 the year before.
- How many Diffusion Models papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 728 Diffusion Models papers, versus 346 the year before.
- How many Diffusion Models papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 608 Diffusion Models papers, versus 551 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Diffusion Models papers?
- NeurIPS, with 2,202 papers from 2023 to 2026.
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